This week’s blog breaks down the state of today’s intent-solvers, highlighting what they actually deliver, and how the Haiku infrastructure sets a whole new bar for power, precision, and real on-chain outcomes!

As we all know, DeFi itself was built on composability… yet for most traders and protocols, it still feels like a maze of clicks, signatures, slow transactions, juggling tabs and hoping the last bridge clears before the next swap fills.

Intent-solvers flip the script. Instead of deciding how to execute each step yourself, you simply define what outcome you want, and let the solver figure out the optimal path. This shift, from transactional to outcome‑focused interaction, defines the future of on-chain DeFi, reimagining how capital moves across chains, protocols, and strategies.

Let’s dive in! 👇

QUICK TL;DR

• Intent-solvers let traders state an outcome, then executes the full plan atomically across chains and protocols, cutting clicks, costs, and leg risk.

• Today’s intent-solvers handle one-click “recipes” like vault zaps, basic rebalances, migrations, and agent-triggered actions, though many rely on templates or auctions and focus on swaps rather than whole-strategy optimisation.

• Haiku solves complete strategies end-to-end, not just swaps but also lending/borrowing, LP create/remove, bridging, and hedging, computed as one plan and executed in a single atomic bundle.

• Haiku moves positions and liquidity where yields, rates, or opportunities are better, then restores target exposures in one coherent flow.

• API access for agents, protocols, and institutions, with sub-second solver responses, low failure rates, and measurable on-chain throughput.

Alice is tired of babysitting her wallet. She wants her portfolio to move with the market, no more rebalancing, or tedious, time-consuming position placement headaches. With Haiku, she sets her goal, and her portfolio morphs into a new state, all in just one click.

• Example 1: Bullish on memes? You decide to reallocate 30% of your stablecoins into PEPE and FWOG, splitting the amount evenly between both. The intent solver handles the swaps, finds liquidity, and completes the move seamlessly.

• Example 2: Facing market volatility, you rotate out of risk-on assets into USDC, choosing to lend for steady yield. The solver exits risk-on positions, bridges if needed, and deposits to the right markets, all in one go.

• Example 3: Noticed Berachain has 6% APY while Arbitrum has 3%? “Move my position to the higher‑yield venue.” Haiku bridges, reallocates, and finalises the new position, no step left hanging.

Intent-solving converts a goal into a plan, then completes it. The solver translates the outcome into a sequence of cross‑protocol operations, bundles them into an atomic transaction, and executes with finality.

• Manual DeFi is fragmented and error‑prone. Traders stitch together swaps, lending/borrowing, LP actions, and bridging across chains and UIs, which is tedious, costly, and inefficient.

• Every extra transaction adds gas, slippage, and exposure. Miss a step, run out of gas, or get front-run mid‑flow, and the economics can break.

• Intent-solvers compress everything into one coherent plan, ideally executed atomically. That means fewer moving parts, lower costs, and far less ‘leg risk’.

Let’s keep it real. You want less clicking, fewer pop‑ups, and zero anxiety about whether step three breaks step six. Today’s intent‑solvers already cover a lot of that daily grind:

• One‑click “recipes” for multi‑step moves: Zap into a vault from any token, sweep dust, or shift positions across chains without juggling five modals and a prayer.

• Plug‑and‑play templates you can remix: Swap + lend, borrow + hedge, bridge + LP. These are shared, forked, and improved by builders and communities.

• Agent‑ready rails: Let bots and external protocols trigger actions off rules, signals, or market conditions, while you get your life back.

So where’s the catch? These tools are solid for common jobs, but most run into walls when things get more expansive, more custom or higher-level. Preconfigured flows, dependency on outside solvers, or narrow primitive coverage can hold them back. They crush predictable tasks, yet struggle when the strategy is bespoke, mixes multiple primitives, or needs true cross‑chain, cross‑protocol portfolio gymnastics—not just swaps and zaps.

If that sounded technical, here’s the human version: stop doing five things in three tabs. Say the outcome, and let the system do the manual work.

Even strong systems hit ceilings:

• Templates don’t cover the long tail of strategies. Real intents are messy and highly variable, and users often need nuanced sequences beyond pre‑baked paths.

• Many systems optimise swaps but not the ‘whole strategy cost.’ They don’t reason across lending/borrowing, flash liquidity, LP ratios, hedge sizing, and timing models as one objective.

• External solver dependencies can add latency, auction overhead, or execution indirection that blunts precision when seconds matter.

• Atomicity is often partial. If everything isn’t finalised in one atomic bundle, leg risk creeps in across steps or chains.

This is the gap Haiku was built to close!

Haiku’s intent-solver is designed to handle the FULL strategy, not just a swap or a “good enough” path. It interprets outcomes, computes the optimal route across primitives and chains, and executes atomically with speed and reliability.

• Instruction‑tuned intent parsing: Haiku translates plain language (Haiku Agent) or manual inputs/outputs (Haiku Pro) into exact, programmatic target outcomes. The solver validates wallet positions, constraints, and risk rules before building a plan. This removes guesswork and ensures outputs match reality.

• A proprietary optimisation engine that reasons across primitives: A constrained optimiser selects and sequences operations (swaps, lending, borrowing, adding/removing liquidity, bridging, delta hedges, and perps/options) and solves for whole‑strategy cost and risk. The focus is total outcome quality, not just a best‑price swap.

• Atomic transaction bundling: Haiku compiles the plan into a single, atomic bundle. Either the entire strategy executes or none of it does. Atomicity removes leg risk, prevents partial state outcomes, and cuts gas overhead compared to multi‑tx flows spread across blocks.

• Cross‑chain by default: The solver is chain‑agnostic and strategy‑first. If the best outcome needs assets to move chains, it uses intent‑aware bridging, solves the downstream actions, and delivers finality in one coherent flow.

• Multi‑primitive, deeply integrated: Haiku covers the primitives that define real trading (swaps, lending, borrowing, LP creation/removal, and bridging) with perps/options on the roadmap. It is designed for compounded strategies like delta‑neutral LPs, hedged yield, leveraged rotations, and cross‑chain migrations.

• Built to be built on: For agents, protocols, and institutions, Haiku provides efficient APIs to programmatically send intents and receive optimised, ready‑to‑sign bundles. The solver is the infrastructure, and UIs and agents are interfaces on top.

• Real performance: The system is built for sub‑second solver responses and low failure rates, with $11m volume, 22,000+ on‑chain transactions executed, 300,000 intents solved, 19 chains supported, and measurable throughput at scale.

• Move a delta‑neutral LP position across chains: Haiku calculates exits, unwinds hedges, bridges, re‑establishes positions, and restores the hedge on the destination chain, all atomically and cost‑optimised.

• Cross‑protocol rate optimisation with portfolio constraints: Eg you want to de-risk into USDC at the best lending rate, keep 20% in stETH, and remove your perps exposure. Haiku evaluates lending markets, bridge costs, funding rates, and liquidity conditions, then executes the full rebalance.

• Hedged yield strategies: You want to open a hedged stablecoin yield position without net long exposure. Haiku allocates collateral, borrows and hedges where needed, deploys into yield, and ensures net exposure stays within constraints.

• Time‑sliced execution and portfolio rotations: For larger sizes, Haiku could plan execution over a horizon (e.g., TWAP/VWAP‑like), while still respecting intent‑level constraints and risk targets.

• Traders get precision, speed, and fewer ways to mess up a complex plan. Fewer clicks, fewer signatures, fewer surprises.

• Agents get a deterministic execution backend for high‑level strategies, instead of stitching calls to fragmented dApps with brittle routing logic.

• Protocols can enable “zap‑in from anywhere” and true cross‑chain composability without rebuilding core primitives or sacrificing execution control.

Intent‑solvers are the future of DeFi. They compress complexity into outcomes and finally make on‑chain trading feel like it should. Many projects offer parts of the puzzle (templates, shortcuts, auctions, or swap routing) but fall short when strategies get real (cross‑chain, hedged, multi‑primitive, atomic, and fast).

Haiku was built for those real strategies. It interprets outcomes, solves the entire path, and executes atomically across chains and protocols. If DeFi is going to feel like the traders expect, fast, precise, and dependable, then outcome‑first, atomic intent execution is the path forward.

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